title: Advances in periodontal diagnosis. 1. Traditional clinical methods of diagnosis.
abstract: This series will consider the limitations of traditional periodontal diagnostic techniques and the recent advances which have sought to overcome them. It will cover improvements in probing and radiographic techniques and also discusses the attempts to find bacterial or tissue-derived markers which will diagnose or predict periodontal disease activity. The first paper describes the traditional methods of periodontal diagnosis.
authors.affiliation: Periodontal Department, King's College School of Medicine and Dentistry, London.
authors.forename: B M
authors.initials: BM
authors.lastname: Eley
authors.forename: S W
authors.initials: SW
authors.lastname: Cox
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D016301:Alveolar Bone Loss / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000503:physiopathology; D001419:Bacteria / Q000302:isolation & purification; D015415:Biomarkers / Q000032:analysis; D002648:Child; D002908:Chronic Disease; D018450:Disease Progression; D004198:Disease Susceptibility; D005889:Gingival Recession / Q000175:diagnosis; D005891:Gingivitis / Q000175:diagnosis; D006801:Humans; D017622:Periodontal Attachment Loss / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000503:physiopathology; D010510:Periodontal Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000382:microbiology; D010517:Periodontics / Q000295:instrumentation; D010518:Periodontitis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology; D016300:Radiography, Bitewing; D015203:Reproducibility of Results
chemical_list: D015415:Biomarkers